I Love Tweety is a three-volume release DVD series by Warner Bros. released exclusively for the Japanese market in 2001. It contains 33 cartoons, eleven cartoons per disc on three DVDs. On each volume, there is an option on the main menu to either play the Japanese dubbing of the shorts or the official English soundtracks. All cartoons listed on this disc are in the post-1948 (Warner Bros.) package. Some restored prints on this set, or 1997 and 1998 "THIS VERSION" prints, never made it to American official collections such as the Looney Tunes Golden Collection or the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection despite being available to include as a "new" cartoon for those sets.
Most of the shorts on each volume star Sylvester and Tweety. The Tweety cartoons used in this DVD series are the same as the I Love You! Tweety Japanese VHS tapes released the previous year, though unlike that collection, one Bugs Bunny short is also included on every volume as a bonus feature. Each volume had eleven cartoons, consisting of ten Tweety & Sylvester cartoons and one Bugs Bunny cartoon.
All of the Tweety cartoons in this DVD collection were restored and remastered in 2001. The three bonus Bugs Bunny cartoons- "Water, Water Every Hare", "Baton Bunny" and "Bully for Bugs"- are presented as 1998 "THIS VERSION" prints. However, all the cartoons on this set, including the cartoons with 1998 "THIS VERSION" prints included, were restored only for standard definition; starting from the third volume of Looney Tunes Golden Collection, they needed to be remastered again in high definition. The restorations available on these discs were also restored with DVNR (digital video noise reduction) artifacts present that has distorted a few frames in the cartoons. Despite this, this DVD series is significant as the first officially authorized DVD release of the Looney Tunes theatrical shorts anywhere in the world, and began an ongoing process to present the cartoons as closely to the original theatrical release as possible.
The majority of these cartoons have either made it onto later home media sets, such as the Looney Tunes Golden Collection and the Looney Tunes Super Stars series. All of the cartoons have also been re-restored later in high definition without the DVNR artifacts; these new versions would be used for later volumes of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, and the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection and Looney Tunes Collector's Choice sets, alongside contemporary streaming and television airings.
Cover | Title | Released | Featured cartoons |
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Volume 1 | 6 April 2001 | ||
Volume 2 | 6 July 2001 |
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Volume 3 | 2 November 2001 |